Improvement in hanging-baskets



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Letters .Patent No. 101,907, (lated April 12, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT 1N HANGING-BASKETS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of che same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known-that I, JOHN H. ON EIL, of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hanging- Baskets, of which the following is a full, clear, and `exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, and

which represents a view ih perspective of a hangingbasket constructed in accordance with my improvement.

Hanging Wire baskets for the holding and culture of flowers and roots or plants, so' generally used both in and out of doors, forming alike articles of ornament andV utility, have, as heretofore constructed, been woven from wire of. suitable strength, which mode of manufacture is attended with considerable labor and expense, thereby making said articles so costly as to cripple or prevent the general use of them.,

lhe objectbf -myinvention is to materially reduce the cost of making hanging Wire baskets, and at the same time to give to them strength and neatness of inish. To this endand in contradistinction to weaving them, my improvement consists in stamping and othemvise molding the same out of wire-ganze.

I take, for instance, Wire-gauze of suitable strength and mesh, and cutting it into squares, place the same, or a piece thus cut, in or over a female die in a hand -or powerpress, so that, on a male die coming down thereon, said piece is shapedto give to it the necessary form or rotundity required for the body of the Thus A, in the drawing, represent-s the body or main portion thereof; and

b, its turned or rounded edge.

The angular protuberance-or corners of the squares I then turn to form rolls B, whichnot only give ornament or neatness of iinish, but materially serve to sti'en the body, and constitute stout points Iof attachment for the hanger D, which may, if desired, be attached to them over or about their middle, or which may be hitched to straps cl tl arranged to unite the ends of adjacent rolls, as represented, or that may be otherwise connected'with said rolls.

A hanging wire basket thus made, not merely .reduces to a very large extent the amount of labor necessary to produce it as compared with the tedious process of weaving, but, as there need be noscrap or waste in working up the blankv when cut from the sheet as described, while there is general] y a surplus or amount of waste wire left in weaving, there is a considerable economy also in the amount of material.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as a new and useful article of manufacture- A hanging wire-basket or body portion thereof', formed from wire-gauze stamped or molded into shape, and with the corners or angles of the piece from which it is made turned over to form rolls, substantially as specified.

J. H. ON EIL. Witnesses:

J AMES LEE, FELIX ONEIL. 

